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Changes in the nocturnal activity of birds during the COVID–19 pandemic lockdown in a neotropical city 一个新热带城市在2019冠状病毒病疫情封锁期间鸟类夜间活动的变化

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Animal Biodiversity and Conservation Pub Date : 2021-06-28 DOI: 10.32800/abc.2021.44.0213

F. A. Estela, C. E. Sánchez-Sarria, E. Arbeláez‐Cortés, D. Ocampo, M. García-Arroyo, A. Perlaza–Gamboa, C. M. Wagner–Wagner, I. MacGregor‐Fors

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Can scientific laws be discussed on philosophical grounds? a reply to naïve arguments on ‘predators’ proposed by Bramble (2021) 科学定律可以在哲学基础上讨论吗?对Bramble提出的naïve关于“掠食者”的论点的回复(2021)

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Animal Biodiversity and Conservation Pub Date : 2021-06-21 DOI: 10.32800/abc.2021.44.0205

Adolfo Cordero-Rivera, R. R. Cezário, R. Guillermo‐Ferreira, V. M. Lopez, I. Sanmartín‐Villar

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The selection of anthropogenic habitat by wildlife as an ecological consequence of rural exodus: empirical examples from Spain 野生动物对人为栖息地的选择作为农村人口外流的生态后果:来自西班牙的经验例子

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Animal Biodiversity and Conservation Pub Date : 2021-06-18 DOI: 10.32800/abc.2021.44.0195

A. Martínez‐Abraín, X. Ferrer, J. Jiménez, I. C. Fernández-Calvo

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Human–wildlife interactions and people’s attitudes towards conservation: a case study from Central Kerala, India 人与野生动物的互动及人们对保护的态度:以印度喀拉拉邦中部为例

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Animal Biodiversity and Conservation Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.32800/ABC.2021.44.0139

S. Govind, Eluvathingal Antony Jayson

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A contribution to the earthworm diversity (Clitellata, Moniligastridae) of Kerala, a component of the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot, India, using integrated taxonomy 使用综合分类学对印度西高止山脉生物多样性热点喀拉拉邦蚯蚓多样性的贡献

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Animal Biodiversity and Conservation Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.32800/ABC.2021.44.0117

S. S. Thakur, A. Lone, S. K. Tiwari, Smriti Jain, S. James, S. Yadav

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Revisión del conflicto entre los humanos y las serpientes en México: origen, mitigación y perspectivas 墨西哥人与蛇冲突的回顾:起源、缓解和前景

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Animal Biodiversity and Conservation Pub Date : 2021-05-21 DOI: 10.32800/ABC.2021.44.0153

L. Fernández-Badillo, I. Zuria, J. Sigala–Rodríguez, G. Sánchez-Rojas, G. Castañeda-Gaytán

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Are quartzite scree slopes used by birds to promote sound transmission in the Mediterranean forest? 鸟类是否利用石英岩碎石斜坡来促进地中海森林中的声音传播?

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Animal Biodiversity and Conservation Pub Date : 2021-05-17 DOI: 10.32800/abc.2021.44.0175

J. Pérez-González, G. Rey Gozalo, D. Montes González, S. J. Hidalgo de Trucios, J. M. Barrigón Morillas

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Interspecific sexual selection, a new theory for an old practice: the increase of artificial biodiversity through creation of modern, standardized breeds 种间性选择，一种旧做法的新理论：通过创造现代标准化品种来增加人工生物多样性

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Animal Biodiversity and Conservation Pub Date : 2021-02-19 DOI: 10.32800/ABC.2021.44.0109

Juan J. Negro, M. C. Blázquez, R. Fernández-Alés, Á. Martín-Vicente

{"title":"Interspecific sexual selection, a new theory for an old practice: the increase of artificial biodiversity through creation of modern, standardized breeds","authors":"Juan J. Negro, M. C. Blázquez, R. Fernández-Alés, Á. Martín-Vicente","doi":"10.32800/ABC.2021.44.0109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32800/ABC.2021.44.0109","url":null,"abstract":"Darwin set the pillars of organismic evolution when he defined natural and sexual selection in the 19th century. Concurrently, a frenzy of selective breeding programmes, generally supported by the wealthy and aristocratic, gave rise to novel breeds of plants and animals at a rate that was previously unforeseen. Since then, breeds selected over millennia and adapted to local conditions began to disappear or were threatened with extinction, being substituted by these new, standardized breeds. It is of interest to explore how new breeds emerged and what the main criteria of the founders of these breeds were. Darwin seemed to be unaware that his contemporaries were practicing a form of interspecific sexual selection responsible for the fixation of exaggerated traits, often plainly ornamental, in the new breeds they intended to create. Parent animals were chosen by individuals who were following particular goals, often with aesthetic criteria in mind. Here we investigated who were the founders of modern breeds in five domesticated species (dogs, cats, pigs, horses and cattle), as very often a single person is credited with the creation of a breed. We found information on founders of 459 breeds, 270 of which were created after 1800. Interestingly, for these species, breed creation is overwhelmingly attributed to men. In the wild, however, the choice of mate is usually performed by the female of a species and thought to be adaptive. Breeders in the Victorian era, nevertheless, lacked such adaptive skills and had little scientific knowledge. The selection of individuals with an extreme expression of the desired traits were often close relatives, resulting in high inbreeding and a variety of genetic disorders.","PeriodicalId":49107,"journal":{"name":"Animal Biodiversity and Conservation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42166177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A plastic device fixed around trees can deter snakes from predating bird nest boxes 一个固定在树周围的塑料装置可以阻止蛇在鸟巢盒子之前出现

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Animal Biodiversity and Conservation Pub Date : 2021-02-12 DOI: 10.32800/10.32800/ABC.2021.44.0103

H. Navalpotro, D. Mazzoni, J. C. Senar

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Seasonal variation in the diet of two predators in an agroecosystem in southern–central Chile 智利中南部农业生态系统中两种捕食者饮食的季节变化

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Animal Biodiversity and Conservation Pub Date : 2021-01-25 DOI: 10.32800/ABC.2021.44.0089

A. Zúñiga, V. Fuenzalida, R. Sandoval, F. Encina

{"title":"Seasonal variation in the diet of two predators in an agroecosystem in southern–central Chile","authors":"A. Zúñiga, V. Fuenzalida, R. Sandoval, F. Encina","doi":"10.32800/ABC.2021.44.0089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32800/ABC.2021.44.0089","url":null,"abstract":"In ecosystems, seasonal fluctuations in the availability of resources can promote effects on species with similar trophic requirements, increasing the probability of interspecific competition. This scenario becomes more evident in human–dominated landscapes where homogenization of space can contribute to the shortage of resources, modifying species feeding behavior to an uncertain degree. Understanding how these species modify their feeding habits within the context of habitat transformation is of special interest. We evaluated the diversity of prey and overlap for two predators, the chilla fox Lycalopex griseus and the barn owl Tyto alba, during three seasons in 2018 (winter, spring and summer). The study was based on the analysis of feces and pellets in a landscape with agricultural predominance in Southern–central Chile. We found the chilla fox had a generalist dietary profile, feeding on a broad spectrum of prey, with predominance of lagomorphs and, to a lesser extent, rodents. In contrast, the diet of the barn owl mainly consisted of small rodents, with little variation across seasons. Analyses of dietary overlap showed fluctuations during the periods surveyed, with a maximum value in winter and a minimum value in spring. Variations in the consumption of prey based on their size could facilitate their coexistence in the study area.","PeriodicalId":49107,"journal":{"name":"Animal Biodiversity and Conservation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41927221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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